Here Are the 12 Best & Worst Moments at the 2017 Golden Globes

Here Are the 12 Best & Worst Moments at the 2017 Golden Globes

Even without the peerless co-hosting talents Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — we'll miss 'em stewarding Hollywood's drunkest awards show always — plenty memories were made at Sunday night's (Jan. 8) Golden Globes, both good and bad. (Many both types featured the Globes' new host, Jimmy Fallon.) Here are the moments that should be inspiring the most extended buzzes and brutal hangovers tomorrow morning.

BEST MOMENTS

Billy Bob Thorton vs. Bob Odenkirk

Never lacking for misanthropic style, Billy Bob Thorton used his surprise win for Best Actor in a Comedy Series as an opportunity to settle a puzzling fictional score with vanquished co-nominee Bob Odenkirk: "Bob and I have had a feud since the 1940s when we did a movie with Van Johnson — remember that, Bob? And we've had a little thing ever since. So, there you go, bud." Made as much sense as Billy Bob's indoor sunglasses, and was just as amusing.

Donald Glover's Migos Shout-Out

"Not for being in the show, but for making 'Bad and Boujee.' That’s the best song…ever.” How quickly we forget about "Black Beatles" — but still, close enough.

Denzel Washington, Having a Moment

And we hadn't even gotten to Meryl Streep's speech yet.

?ulia Louis-Dreyfuss

Not a bad look with the hair pick and glasses, but most memorable was just JLD's presented-without-comment DJ impression — a faux-scratch here, a knob twiddle there, and a perpetually undistractable facial expression.

"Fantasia Day"

Without Tina and Amy, nothing more reliable at the Golden Globes than Kristen Wiig and a worthy comedic partner shaming all other pre-award banter with a routine that's confusing, unpredictable and at least mostly hilarious. Her and Steve Carrell did the legacy proud this year with their tragic remembrances the first time they ever saw an animated movie; Wiig while her three dogs were being put down, and Carrell just before his parents got divorced: "I never saw my father again after that day… Fantasia day…”

Barb in the opening musical number

But only if we all agree that this is the last time, and we're all gonna let it go after this.

Brian Tyree Henry and Keith Stanfield, beaming

Tough for Donald Glover to top his Migos moment, but although his speech for Best Actor in a Comedy was damn strong, the emotional heavy lifting was done in the crowd, where Glover's two Atlanta co-stars were shown clutching each other like a couple tearfully proud parents. A moment true poignance, even more so because now we can look forward to the possibility it somehow being integrated into an upcoming season two episode.

Meryl's speech

Raw, heartfelt, necessary and earned — and for us in the press, more ennobling than we sometimes deserve.

WORST MOMENTS

Take that, Mariah Carey

Jimmy Fallon experienced a monitor mishap his own to begin the live portion his Golden Globes hosting, so he deflected any potential virality to a predecessor who'll forever have him trumped, Mariah Carey: "She thinks that Dick Clark Productions sabotaged my monologue." Took him until the next time he was out to come up with that zinger, too.

"Hidden Fences," not once but twice

To be fair, Hidden Fences does sound like a pretty good movie title. But, uh, still not a particularly good look for Michael Keaton, Jenna Bush, or anyone.

Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn's forgotten-glasses schtick

Is the best we can do for this duo a series never-funny jokes about misreading the teleprompter? Between this and the "Formation" video remake, it's like Amy and Goldie think they have to try way harder than they actually do to be funny and awesome together.

The doubly aggressive play-f music

Yeah, we all want to get out here and go to sleep, but this is just getting insulting.